East Africa Is At A Breakthrough Moment

Future Energy Partners is committed to supporting its clients to deliver energy excellence for its stakeholders, especially in the context of climate change challenges.

The concept of ‘stranded’ oil resources is now front and centre for many people in western countries. However, in the interest of the economic development of East Africa and the people, development of crude oil and natural gas resources needs to happen. However, our position is that these developments need to be done to ‘international standards’ with due consideration of the impact on affected citizens ensuring that those citizens benefit from these developments. Many will be aware of the delay in the Total operated Mozambique LNG project due to security and stability issues.

Total, CNOOC, the Uganda National Oil Company(UNOC) and the Governments of Uganda and Tanzania announced that the final investment decision (FID) for the Tilenga, Kingfisher and East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) projects has now been made. It has taken over a decade of negotiating, ownership changes and new regulation and legislation in both countries to make this happen. Congratulations should be offered to all the parties. This is the ‘end of the beginning’. Now the work of drilling well, building pipelines, feeding…